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They reported that there was an 8.5 magnitude earthquake in Sumatra, which triggered the massive tsunami.
Governments will never gravitate towards crimes of this magnitude naturally or eagerly.
A lot of people say: How do you sleep at night when you're wrestling with a problem of that magnitude?
Poverty, by an order of magnitude, a huge order of magnitude, unless someone can show that there's, you know, terrorists with a nuke are really likely to come.
Looking at dinosaur evolution and studying it, digging it up for many years, I end up looking at the mammal radiation, and it seems as though everything is quick time, just like technology, advancing by an order of magnitude.
Dinosaur evolution proceeded at a stately pace, an order of magnitude slower on any way you want to measure it.
And the reason I like this number is because it shows that, really, when it comes to success, it's unbounded, that the best doesn't only get slightly more than the second best but gets orders of magnitude more, because success is a collective measure.
We're reminded that discoveries of this magnitude don't happen overnight.
We've been searching ever since, but it's impossible to overstate the magnitude of the search that remains.
They are about an order of magnitude longer, about 11 times longer in duration on average, than in a normal child.
Last May, China in the Sichuan province had a terrible earthquake, 7.9 magnitude, massive destruction in a wide area, as the Richter Scale has it.
The last time China had a quake of that magnitude it took them three months to admit that it had happened.
The chemistry from compounds in the environment is orders of magnitude more complex than our best chemists can produce.
That's an order of magnitude, up or down.
Well, remember that's not even an order of magnitude, but that's a different story.
The problem with technologies like this is that if one looks at proteins in the body, there are 11 orders of magnitude difference between the high-abundant and the low-abundant proteins.
So, there's no technology in the world that can span 11 orders of magnitude.
Looking ahead, if you think of this disk as representing all of the children we've treated so far, this is the magnitude of the problem.
So when we talk about how much time we're currently investing in playing games, the only way it makes sense to even think about it is to talk about time at the magnitude of human evolution, which is an extraordinary thing.
Today, the practicalities of making such an encyclopedia, regardless of the magnitude of the information put into it, are within reach.
And all of that stuff is really disgusting, but what's really insidious is the biological pollution that happens because of the magnitude of the shifts that it causes to entire ecosystems.
It has to do with the magnitude and significance of our differences.
I'm not saying that fiction has the magnitude of an earthquake, but when we are reading a good novel, we leave our small, cozy apartments behind, go out into the night alone and start getting to know people we had never met before and perhaps had even been biased against.
A century-scale, decadal-scale variability, and we know the magnitude; it's about two-tenths to four-tenths of a degree Centigrade.
The proof of this came in Chile, almost a month later, when 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit Chile.
As an evolutionary biologist, I'd say this: our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude, of size and speed which our bodies operate at.
It also is funny how seismically active areas are shown to have massive destruction from a 6.5 magnitude earthquake.
One problem I see is that the magnitude of the novel asks for a miniseries of several hours, rather than a regular movie.
Bruce Dern's one minute part is orders of magnitude better than anything else in this flick.
Isolated acts of nature (of this magnitude) are unthinkable.
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